Thursday, 23 December 2010

The numbers for the Blog Candy Draw have now been allocated (see bottom of the page). The draw will take place tomorrow (hopefully at 1.00 p.m. approx.) - please log in tomorrow to see if you are a winner!Good luck to everyone who has entered.

Tuesday, 14 December 2010

I have decided to start The Scrapbook Garden winter sale early this year. Half-price bargains are available - some very limited stocks! Come in and have a look around - you may see something you like!

At least the 'white stuff' has now gone (but coming back on Thursday - uggghhh!!!). I hope you are all coping with your Christmas shopping? I went out for a couple of things today and (after 3 hours) came back with almost nothing!

Friday, 10 December 2010

Just to let everyone know that there is a Free Prima Craftable Flowers offer on at the moment at The Scrapbook Garden shop.Just spend £15 or more on any combination of Ranger products and a pack of Prima Craftable Flowers will be sent out with your order automatically! Pass this offer onto anyone who you think may be interested.The snow is starting to melt - hurrah!

Sunday, 5 December 2010

Looking through some of my previous layouts I remembered that I used this photo (taken December last year) for calendar layouts. Remember that scrapbooking doesn't have to be strictly for an album - you can make scrapbook layouts and use them for calendars as I have done here. This first one I did was from a Mind My Eye's Calendar Kit - everything was included and all I had to do was stick it all together - result! A quick and easy way to make something hand-made.

This second calendar layout was for a present and I used a blank calendar from The Paper Mill Shop. The patterned papers, rub-ons, gems etc., were taken from my stash!

Why not make someone a lovely 'hand-made' present this year. I am sure they will appreciate all the time and effort you have put into it - and most importantly, it will be unique!

Wednesday, 1 December 2010

This is one of two layouts I have done for Thursday's scrapbooking class using 'paper punches' as the technique. The photographs are of a lovely sunny 'Sports Day' last Year! I thought you might want to see something that doesn't have snow in it! This layout is kept simple to show what the corner rounder punch can do and also the ribbon slot punch (which I threaded some of the patterned paper through).On this second layout I used an edger punch, the corner rounder as before and a Martha Stewart Daisy Punch (that I used last week as well). The patterned papers (that are double-sided) are from Crate Paper (Pink Plum Collection). The corner rounder and edger punches are from Dovecraft.

I doubled up the photographs on the layouts because I wanted to show some 'action shots' as well as the 'posed' ones. It is difficult when working on the 8"x8" sized layouts to get multiple photographs - one way is to print them out smaller. The ones I used were just 6x4 that I cut down to size.